Day 3 of the tournament means that, for the first time, someone will go home, while someone else will win their second straight game and lock up a place in the final two in their half of the field. Lots to play for, then, on a Sunday in Omaha . . .
World Series Time Machine: 1978
The 1978 baseball season became famous for the AL East playoff race between the Yankees and Red Sox and the resulting one-game playoff (the first in the AL since 1948), but there was a lot else going on: Pete Rose collected his 3000th hit and posted a 44-game hitting streak, Willie McCovey his 500th home run, and Gaylord Perry his 3000th strikeout; Ron Guidry (18 Ks in a game by an AL lefty) and J.R. Richard (303 Ks in a season by an NL righty) set strikeout marks; and Lyman Bostock was lost tragically just as he became a superstar. In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion New York Yankees (100-63) face off (again) against the National League Champion Los Angeles Dodgers (95-67) . . .
2025 College World Series replay - Day 2
The first Saturday of the College World Series showcases the opening contests from the lower half of the bracket, featuring the next chapter of Murray State's Cinderella story and a marquee matchup between two of the top three teams in the country according to the Diamond Sports Ranking . . .
1981-82 NHL Co-Op Replay: NYR at TOR (10-24-81)
24 October 1981: The home-standing Maple Leafs, playing without injured leading scorer Rick Vaive, took a 3-1 lead midway through the second period and then somehow survived a shocking lack of discipline over the final twenty minutes to hold on and defeat the Rangers. The Leafs scored first, five minutes into the game, when Börje Salming slapped one home on the power play just 17 seconds after Barry Beck was sent to the box. The Rangers answered with their own PP marker just three minutes later, Ron Duguay cashing in just before Jim Benning’s minor infraction expired. A first period that was largely played in the neutral zone (13 total SOG) saw one more highlight - Terry Martin jamming a rebound of Darryl Sittler’s shot underneath Steve Weeks halfway through the period to send Toronto to the dressing rooms with a 2-1 lead.
2025 College World Series replay - Day 1
For the 75th time, the best teams in college baseball converge on Omaha, Nebraska to wrestle for Division I supremacy in a double-elimination tournament that is part sporting event and part festival of baseball. Representatives of the Sun Belt (Coastal Carolina), Big 12 (Arizona), ACC (Louisville), Big Ten (UCLA), Missouri Valley (Murray State) and Southeastern Conferences (Arkansas, LSU) along with one Independent (Oregon State) qualified for the 2025 MCWS through Regional and Super Regional tournaments that brought them to The Greatest Show on Dirt as one of eight teams with a chance to claim a National Championship. Play gets underway with two games in the top half of the bracket on Friday, 13 June . . .
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